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The Hebrew version of 1 Chronicles lists the descendants of Egypt and Canaan, among them the ancestors of the Philistines. The Greek Septuagint translation drops the entire list of nations and goes straight from Nimrod to the sons of Shem.
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1 Chronicles 1:11
Hebrew Bible
10 Cush was the father of Nimrod, who established himself as a mighty warrior on earth. 11 Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, 12 Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines descended) , and the Caphtorites. 13 Canaan was the father of Sidon—his firstborn—and Heth, 14 as well as the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, 15 Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, 16 Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. 17 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
LXX 1 Chronicles 1:11
Septuagint
10 And Cush became the father of Nimrod. This one began to be a mighty hunter upon the earth. 17 The sons of Shem: Elam, Assyria,a 24 Arphaxad, Shelah, 25 Eber, Peleg, Reu, 26 Serug, Nahor, Terah, 27 Abraham. 28 And the sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael. 29 Now these are the generations of the firstborn, Ishmael: Nebaioth, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
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Notes and References
... To be sure, there are some genuine text-critical issues in the formation of 1 Chronicles 1. Verses 11-16 (from ‘and Mizraim’ through to ‘the Hamathites’) are lacking in the Septuagint (Vaticanus) and cursives ghc2 and are sub asteriscus in the Syro-Hexaplar. In cursive i only verses 13-16 are missing. All of verses 11-23 are sub asteriscus in cursives en, although the text-critical significance of these variations is disputed. Verses 11-16 do appear in the Masoretic Text, the Septuagint (Alexandrinus and Sinaiticus) and the Armenian. The Septuagint (Vaticanus) has the lectio brevior but, by the same token, the want of this material in the Septuagint (Vaticanus) is puzzling, given (1) the heading in verse 4 (‘The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham and Japheth’); (2) the heading in verse 8 (‘the sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan’); and (3) the inclusion of Ham’s other descendants (verses 9-10). I am inclined to think that the material in question has been lost from the tradition underlying the Septuagint (Vaticanus), although there is no obvious mechanism for haplography. ...
Knoppers, Gary N.
"Shem, Ham and Japheth: The Universal and the Particular in the Genealogy of Nations" in Graham, M. Patrick; McKenzie, Steven L. (ed.) The Chronicler as Theologian: Essays in Honor of Ralph W. Klein
(pp. 17-18) T&T Clark International, 2003
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